Leiden: Franciscus Hackius, 1651

A variation on the anatomical iconography of the ‘flayed man’. However, although the skin of the corpse has been partly removed, the artist has not depicted the anatomy of the muscles beneath. Thomas Bartholin was Professor of Anatomy at Copenhagen, a post also held by both his father and his son. His Anatomia is a reworking of his father Caspar’s Anatomicae institutiones corporis humani (Wittenberg, 1611), but with copious illustrations and a section on the circulation of the blood. It was one of the most popular anatomical works of the seventeenth century.

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